The world's biggest processions 3 million devotees joined the Black Nazerene procession. Devotees follow the statue of The Black Nazarene crosses Jones Bridge in Manila. Devotion to the ebony statue of Jesus Christ, crowned with thorns and bearing a cross, and carry it in the “traslacion,” one of the world’s biggest religious processions. 6.4-kilometer route of the procession thousands of male and female devotees began to battle for position at dawn to get near the Black Nazarene statue, which they believed had miraculous powers.
The Philippine National Police deployed 6,000 policemen to secure the daylong procession, and widespread crime in the country. The security included police snipers who perched on rooftops of buildings along the route of the procession.
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